The Studio was a six month creative residency in collaboration with Carol Smith at Port Phillip Specialist School as part of Regional Arts Victoria's Creative Workers in Schools Program
We designed The Studio as a child-led space where students had the freedom to explore their individual creative voices. The children could work one-on-one or in small groups with us on personalised projects that followed their specific interests and inclinations.
The desire to explore this model came from our experience that group art projects often exclude children who are restricted and stifled by traditional parameters. This residency was a rare opportunity in which we had time and space to be curious to their creative worlds and discover interests and abilities that may otherwise go unnoticed.